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14 Nov 2021, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
  Decided in 1898, it held, by a 6-2 vote, that children of Chinese immigrants, even if the parents were in fact disallowed from becoming American citizens by American law, nonetheless became American citizens by virtue of having been born within the United States, in his case, and not surprisingly, San Francisco. [read post]
22 Feb 2022, 6:01 am by David A. Martin
Proposition 187 had passed in California with 59 percent of the vote, enacting state-law measures meant to crack down on unauthorized migration. [read post]
10 Aug 2017, 9:38 am by Rebecca Tushnet
  Property qualifications for voting were restrictive, based on idea that you needed a stake to be politically responsible; but there were progressive strains as well. [read post]
15 Mar 2023, 5:16 am by Nick Nugent
It’s true, as Genevieve Lakier explains, that another line of cases has “interpreted the First Amendment to prohibit government pressure tactics that seek to intimidate rather than persuade private actors into suppressing objectionable speech, even when those tactics are not so strong as to leave their target with essentially no choice but to comply. [read post]
6 Feb 2024, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Similarly, for Kavanagh, the purpose of a “representative democracy” is to create “some ‘deliberative distance’ between the people and their elected representatives so that elected politicians have sufficient opportunity to discern and devise policies in the true interest of the country” (ibid., 44). [read post]
4 Jul 2014, 10:43 am by Marty Lederman
  If a religious nonprofit chooses not to pay for contraceptive services, it is true that someone else may have a legal obligation to pay for them, just as someone may have to go to war in place of the conscientious objector. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 9:17 am
  The object remains the same, inflaming passions, or in the drier language of the administrator of the engagement of the (voting or focus group relevant) masses might say, to lead people to an appropriate understanding of events and their implications. [read post]
26 Oct 2022, 1:08 pm
Since its founding, the Communist Party of China has remained true to its original aspiration and founding mission of seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation. [read post]
4 Sep 2018, 8:37 pm
  This has been true not just in the modern era but from ancient times. [read post]
31 Dec 2020, 9:03 pm by Joshua Burd
The European Parliament voted 621-49 to ratify the Brexit agreement governing Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union. [read post]
21 Jul 2020, 4:00 am by John Gregory
I pointed out in 2010 that Electronic Voting [is] Not like E-Banking, a common comparison. [read post]
1 Aug 2008, 11:40 pm
The task force approach has the added benefit of bringing together, as true partners, a broad range of local police and sheriffs, federal agents, educators, business leaders, faith-based and community organizations, and state and local officials. [read post]
31 Mar 2011, 8:05 pm by Michael Froomkin
He is an energetic guy, and enjoys the good fortune of having been attacked by the Castro regime for his service as the head of the US Interests Section in Cuba, which ought to be good for a vote or three in South Florida. [read post]
6 Feb 2011, 11:36 pm by TDot
Instead of focusing on the impending tuition battle I mentioned in Part I above, the leadership of UNCASG has focused instead on getting the President a vote on the university system’s Board of Governors — an utterly useless power on a Board where almost all votes are unanimous, and doubly useless when reaching out to the 215,000+ students the ASG President represents can carry more power than any vote. [read post]
26 Sep 2022, 9:00 pm by Barry Winograd
True, public opinion about the Court has bounced back from declines in the past. [read post]